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bread⋅bas⋅ket

[bred-bas-kit, -bah-skit]
–noun
1. a basket or similar container for bread or rolls.
2. an agricultural area that provides large amounts of food, esp. grain, to other areas.
3. Slang. a person's stomach or abdomen.
–adjective
4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a geographical breadbasket: Iowa is a breadbasket state.

Origin:
1545–55; bread + basket
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bread·bas·ket   (brěd'bās'kĭt)   
n.  
  1. A basket for serving bread.

  2. A geographic region serving as a principal source of grain supply.

  3. Slang The stomach.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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breadbasket

and dinner basket
  1. n.
    the belly; the stomach. : I hit him, pow, right in the breadbasket. , I have a little pain in the dinner basket.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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